Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 8, Issue 391, 5 July 1866, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

POET OF NAPIER. AESIVALS. My I—star of the South, s.s., from Auckland S—Lord Ashley, s.s., from Southern Port* 3—Nautilus, cutter, from Auckland 3 Thane of Fife, brigantine, from Kalpara 4 Vistula, brigantine, from Sydney DEPARTURES. July 2—Hercules, cutter, for Poverty Bay 2—Slaggis, "brig, for Nowcast-lo 4—Lord Ashley, s.s., for Auckland 4—Saucy Lass, schooner, for Auckland EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Balmoral, brigantine, from Hobart Town Blue Bell, schooner, from Auckland Celt, schooner, from Auckland Clyde, schooner, from Auckland Joanna, schooner, from Auckland lady Bird, schooner, from Wairoa lady TVynyard, cutter, from Auckland lord Ashley, s.s., from Auckland—l4th Nautilus, cutter, from Auckland Queen, schooner, from Wairoa Queen, schooner, from Auckland Eose Ann, schooner, from Auckland Saucy Lass, schooner, from Auckland Sturt, p.s., from the East Coast Success, schooner, from Auckland Taraipiue, ketch, from Wairoa Tawera, schooner, from Auckland Vivid, schooner, from Wairoa VESSELS IN HAEBOB. Henry, schooner—repairing Hero, ketch, from Wairoa MaMa, cutter, from Waikari and Mahl* Bailors’ Bride, ketch, from Wairoa Star of the South, s.s., from Auckland Thane of Fife, brigantine, from Kaipara Vistula, brigantine, from Sydney ENTEEED XNWAEDS. JULY B— Star of the South, s.s., 147 tons, Bendall, from Auckland, with 118 mats sugar, 12 eases wine. 40 hags sugar, SO cases ale, 10 half-cases geneva, 5 casks stout, 300 hags and 50 sacks flour, 1 hale drapery, 75 hags biscuits. 19 boxes soap, 5 cases moselle, 1 horse, Watt, Brothers; 20 cases hrandy, 20 cases geneva, 4 qr-casks port wine, F. Button; 2 sacks wheat, Kinross and Co.; 3 hhds. ale MTntyre; 3 packages merchandise, Knowles; 3 pckgs., Holder; 1 package, Cosgrove. Passengers—Mr Turley, Mr and Mrs Black and 4 children. —Watt, Brothers, agents. B— lord Ashley, s.s., 295 tons, Ponsonhy, from Wellington, with .6 packages, Stuart and Co.; 5 cases, 1 trunk, 1 truss, Knowles; 3 cases. 1 bale, Kinsoss and Co.; 3 cases, 4 trunks, J. and H. C. Eobjohns; 4 cases, 1 truss, Eathbone; 4 cases, 7 trunks, 1 truss, Stuart and Co.; 0 trunks, 1 box, Reardon; 2 trunks, 1 case, 1 bale, Newton, Irvine and Co.; 2 trusses, 1 bale, Sutton; 2 cases, 1 box, 2 trunks, 1 case, 1 parcel, Drower; 10 trunks, 1 truss, 3 cases, Neal and Close; 4 cases merchandise, ti cases. 1 box, 30 cases geneva, 2 qv-casks port, 25 casks bottled beer, Eoutledge; 20 kegs nails, Dram Held; 214 packages merchandise, Eathbone; 3 bundles trees, Stuart and Co.; 1 sack seeds, Sturm; 1 case, 1 wheel, H. Williams; 32 drums oil and turps, 3 cases glass, N. Williams; 2 kegs butter, 10 boxes candles, Stuart and Co.; 1 box, Hill; 1 case, 1 sewingraachine, Kinross; 4 kegs nails, 3 casks sugar, 3 cases, 1 case vestas, 3 casks tea, 5 colls rope, 1 eases, 12 cases oil, 1 case whiting, 1 cask crockery, 1 parcel augers, 1 parcel pans, 8 mats sugar, 3 dozen iron buckets, 1 case axes, Eoutledge and Co.; 4 cases drugs. Cowing; 1 case, Eoutledge; 2 cases galvanised iron, N. Williams; 1 case stationery, J. H. Campbell; 2 cases currants, 28 bags potatoes, F. Sutton; 2 ba.es leather, 1 parcel, Brenton; 2‘i bags rice, Newton, Irvine and Co.; 3 bags grass seed, Colonel Whitmore; 5 bags grass seed. Major Green; 1 case, Peacock; 1 parcel, 4 ca ,t s, Stuart and Co, And large general cargo for, Auckland. Passengers —Sir & Mrs Evans, Miss Evans, Sir & Sirs Sl’Kellar, Sirs Etuart and 2 children, Messrs. Griudell, Hunter, Bussell, Pattison, Cransworth.'Doggett, Williams, Walker, and Sweeney.—Eoutledge, Kennedy aud Co„ agents. B—Nautilus, cutter, 29 tons, Coiwvay, from Auckland, via Mercury Bay, with 20,000 feet timber, Le Quesne. Passenger—l.—Master, agent. CLEARED OUTWARDS. JULY. B—Saucy I/ass, schooner, 3S tons, Sl'Kenzic, for Auckland, via Bay of Plenty, with 1,000 feet timber, 6 doz. wooden ploughs, 1 doz. pairs blankets.—Master, agent. 4—Nautilus, cutter, 20 tons, Conway, for Waikari, with 14,000 feet timber, 14,000 shingles, 4 boxes personal elfects.—Passengers—2.—Master, agent. 4—Lord Abliloy, s.s., 293 tons, Ponsonhy, for Auckland, with 3 cases, order, and original cargo from South. Passengers—Messrs Lee, Ferris, and Hulbert.—Eoutledge aud Co., agents. Narrow Escape of the Steamer Yakea when Crossing Hokitika Bah, and Loss of Life. —The West Coast Times, of the 9th June, has the followingA frightful surf lashed the coast yesterday, —so heavy, in fact, that the usual signal, “ bar passable,” was not displayed at tide-time. The Eangitoto, however, having arrived from Melbourne, with nearly 100 passengers on board for this port and GreymoiUh, it was considcrad advisable to attempt communicating with her by steamer; and at noon, accordingly, (lie p.s. Persevere, bound to the Grey, crossed the bar, and ran alongside for any “ stray waifs” whoso destination, was that port. She effected the passage safely, aud after shipping some twenty passengers, departed on her way northwards. In the meantime, the surf had much increased, and it was considered doubtful by those on board the Eangitoto whether the Yarra, which was to follow the Persevere for the Hokitika passengers, would leave the river. Leave, however, she did, and like her predecessor, pushed through the “ break” unscathed, but the heavy westerly swell compelled her to hang astern of the Company’s steamer, and tranship by the aid of the ship’s boats. This much delayed her, and it was not till considerably after 4 p.m. that she cast off and steamed for the river, and on arriving abreast the entrance the day had so much waned that the beacons were hardly visible, and to add to the peril of “ crossing,” the surf was rolling—line after line—in fearful walls of water, ar.d breaking quite a mile from the shore. The first two or three seas merely swept the steamer with lightning rapidity onwards, but being compelled to sheer her broadside to it, to reach clear of the point of the North Spit, the nest roller —a boisterous green sea, overtopping her deck by feet—broke on board, crushing in her starboard bulwarks, starting the cabin skylight, sweeping the galley overboard, and flooding the decks with water to a level with the port rail. In the midst of the confusion that prevailed, the fearful cry of “ a man overboard” was raised, and there, battling fur his life in the midst of the boiling surge, an unfortunate fellow was observed, but quite out of the reach of help from those on board, for the Yarra having taken the ground sea after sea poured over her, rendering the situation of those on board perilous in the titjune, and compelling them to hold on fore and ait to avoid sharing a similar fate. Alter itlout lea minutes of deluge and suspense, which

seemed an age to the passengers, the steamer was washed by the surf into the deeper water inside, and steamed up the river without further mishap, save the loss of several boxes of luggage, which were hove overboard to lighten her. On arriving at the wharf it was discovered that the missing party was a Mr Dalton, who, under the alias of Graham, had taken a cabin passage in Sydney, per City of Melbourne, to join the Eangitoto in Melbourne, which was advertised to sail for Hokitika on the Ist instant. The unfortunate gentleman was en route for England, purposing, after transacting certain business in this town, to join the Xaikora in Wellington, and proceed homewards by the Panama route. His plans, however, have been thwarted in the above lamentable manner. This is the first catastrophe of the kind which has ever occurred in the annata of Hokitika, for, although our harbor steamers have crossed the bar at various times under the most disadvantageous circumstances, the attempts have never resulted in loss of life. That such a calamity has at last resulted is deeply to be regretted -, and although we feel unwilling to attach any blame to either captain or agents, we cannot help passing a few strictures on the folly of permitting vessels to leave the river in the face of such a sea; and watching, as we did, the passage of the Yarra from the North Spit, we only wonder that all of her deck passengers were not swept away. Those below were almost in equal peril, for through the starting of the skylight the cabin was half filled with water, and a few more seas would have in all probability extinquished the fires, and then the consequences might have been fatal to all on board. It cannot be denied that in the midst of imminent danger the captain of the Yarra behaved with judgment and coolness, and handled his boat well; and the agent of the Yarra (Mr Bonar) and the Panama Company’s agent (Mr White) both exerted themselves to the uttermost to keep order and restore confidence amongst the affrighted crowd on board. Of this we are assured by several of the passengers.”